Re: tutorial or demo download

[Yonik Seeley]

OK, I envision a solr-demo.zip with the following structure:
solr-demo/
 start.sh, start.bat, stop.sh, stop.bat that call tomcat/bin/startup*
 /tomcat/*
 /conf
solrconfig.xml, schema.xml, etc
 /data

The core binary distribution of tomcat weighs in at 6MB, not too bad.
I guess the right way to package would be to have an ant task that
unzips tomcat, places the solr files in the right places, and zips
everything back up?

Should the tomcat.zip be checked into our svn, or perhaps downloading
the tomcat distribution can be an acceptable manual step for a
developer rebuilding the solr-demo.zip?

We might also want to pre-populate the index before packaging.

-Yonik


On 2/14/06, Doug Cutting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Yonik Seeley wrote:
  What do people think about a downloadable tutorial or demo that
  included Tomcat or Jetty, limiting the requirements to Java5 and
  simplifying setup for new users?
 
  Steps with demo bundle:
  - Install Java 5
  - unpack solr-demo.zip
  - ./start

 +1

 A good out-of-the-box experience will greatly increase adoption.

 Doug

Re: tutorial or demo download

[Otis Gospodnetic]

+1!
Jetty would be better than Tomcat.  Tomcat is a bear compared to Jetty.

Otis

- Original Message 
From: Yonik Seeley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: solr-dev@lucene.apache.org
Sent: Tue 14 Feb 2006 10:39:35 AM EST
Subject: tutorial or demo download

What do people think about a downloadable tutorial or demo that
included Tomcat or Jetty, limiting the requirements to Java5 and
simplifying setup for new users?

Steps with demo bundle:
- Install Java 5
- unpack solr-demo.zip
- ./start

Steps w/o demo bundle:
- Install  configure Java5, svn, ant
- download appserver and install
- download solr source and build
- install the war in the appserver
- cd solr/example; run appserver start script from here

-Yonik